You are so welcome!

Agree!!

​@@HouseofValentina Your house is very charming! Love your videos! I followed your link for "Amazon live painting" videos and, unfortunately, couldn't find the one where you were creating your own art. Would you please help to locate it, please?

I would also add that her personality is much appreciated! Seriously, some decorators are ridiculously unauthentic!

Couldn’t agree more with this!!! I’ve had this happen SOOOOO many times where I’m glad I didn’t pull the trigger on something right away and ended up changing my mind. If it’s something hard to find I’ll buy it and then live with it while I’m still in the return window to see if it still speaks to me. A lot of times the idea of something seems so appealing and then just doesn’t translate in real life. You’re like EH not what I was expecting.

One of my sisters was an artist and she painted several pictures for me including one of my precious pet. She used to take paintings to Starving Artists shows. Excellent places to get quality one of a kind true art to place in your home. One of my granddaughters is talented and severs of her paintings were exhibited in a HS art show. One was Vincent Van Gough’s Starry Night which I framed and hung above a door. I love it.

Great point! And the best part is much of that vintage furniture was very well-made compared to the furniture of today. And there are so many artists that you can purchase original art from as opposed to mass produced copies from Home Goods, etc.

I’ve found some great mid century or vintage pieces at thrift stores for a few dollars that are being sold for hundred or thousands on 1st dibs or Chairish. Thrifting is an art and luck but a great way to curate pieces over time instead of purchasing a showroom at a designer store. Spray paint works wonders too to upgrade items like lighting.

I agree, if you are happy with your pieces keep them, I do 🤛🏻🇬🇧

I would love a video on that as well.

Garrett LeChic released the video you want today!

@@robinbirdj743 LOL! I watched that video the moment it went up! Love him ❤️

Firing seems extreme. I understand the customer is always right but for air quality, and actual removal of VOCs while cooking a powerful overhead vent is best. It may be ugly, but it does the job better. But I can't afford to upgrade things merely for how things are designed, I have to care about how things function. They did give you good advice even if you didn't like it. Now if you never cook you don't need any kind of venting.

​@@key6157Obviously you've never dealt with a super-pushy sales pitch, especially if they think their excrement doesn't stink. The cost to put in that hood would have been absolutely astronomical. And have you considered that our great-great-grandparents cooked on their stoves just fine without a hood?

How does it wash?

It’s a great one!

I got into painting pictures of trees. Very forgiving! 🤣

@@firestick4991 Ah, trees--and waterfalls too...happy painting!!!

Sorry, but your husband sounds kinda boring. Best of luck, (truly, not joking) introducing him to a fresh perspective!

Love this!!! When I’ve been on a budget, I have had to repurpose what I already have and I ended up getting the functionality I needed without spending additional money. Sometimes I feel grateful to not have an unlimited budget bc it makes me less wasteful and more creative.

This is so true! We built our home in 2000, and I want to redo EVERYTHING! It is encouraging to hear that there are certainly choices to be made, but NOT everything has to be high dollar!

@@bellaheblan8479 I'm right there with ya, Bella! :) The struggle is real! I so appreciate Valentina covering this topic. It's super thoughtful of her as a successful designer.

I ruined my mid century home because I was ignorant of history and didn’t know better. I tore out my pink bath to put white subway title and marble, and now I want to punch myself. It wasn’t until I learned about architectural styles that I appreciated the beauty in those old homes. Now all you see everywhere is neutrals and it’s getting repetitive. I suggest reding up on homes from the 60 s and see if previous owners left vintage details you can showcase, like fun title, metal cabinets, solid wood built ins. And please, please do not do a white kitchen cabinets! I regret them too.

I have shared this before on V's channel but I feel your pain. I'm a designer myself and did a lot of work for a lady in our city who lives in a large home on the corner of two of the most highly sought after streets in town. The lot is probably 2 acres. It all was inherited by the husbands grandparents. The love their house and area but at some point when they "move on" or have to sell the current house could actually be torn down to build a huge McMansion. SO when it came time to re-do the bathroom between two guest bedrooms I decided to embrace the 50's pink and black bathroom while breathing new life into it. The pink tile w/black bullnose, surrounding the tub and as wainscoting on bulldoze, was actually that lovely slightly variegated glaze you see a lot now, very artisan look so I left it all while painting the plaster upper walls a soft white. But the checkered floor was too much so I had my contractor put down a Coretec floating LVT waterproof floor that looked like crushed ebony oak. The graining even had a pale pinkish cast! Stunning! Then i did a vinyl water/steam friendly vinyl wood plank ceiling i painted a pale Robin's egg blue. Next I made a gorgeous tailored valance out of an expensive Lee Jofa very modern IKAT paisley linen fabric, an off white background with the same rosy pink and black paisley colors in the IKAT design with teeny shell beaded trim mounted over 2"ivory vinyl blind for privacy. I made a two panel shower curtain out of all cotton Robin's egg/aqua modern moorish trellis patterned curtains from Home Goods which I hung with a waterproof extra long liner behind. I kept the 50's sink the small clipped corner deco look on chrome legs but changed the fixtures and mirror and lighting, creating more magic. Then some fabulous modern art over the john, a rustic wood and steel hook wall rack for towels and then a small antique Persian rug she found in the attic (!) in the faded black and rose and cream colors hung on an antique rod on the wall next to the black toilet. Add other bath accoutrements and to say the least it was "eye candy" and tho the smallest, one of the most commented on rooms in the house! I give all that detail as inspiration in case any one else is looking to retain yet refresh and modernize a 50's coloured bathroom.

I didn't have time to proofread and correct my typos and even more frustrating, the stupid "spellcheck" so called "corrections" that switch words out and make no sense whatsoever. Here are the corrections: 1)the house was inherited FROM the husband's grandparents. 2)THEY love their house and area ..3)or have to sell, the current house could actually be torn down...(this is happening in our city and thousands of others where people pay top dollar for the prime location/lot and then do a "scrape off" of a perfectly good house in this case, to build something more grand!) 4)...the pink tile...as wainscoting ON THE WALLS..." 5) LVT waterproof floor that looked like CERUSED or limed ebony/(almost black) oak. Sorry I'm so OCD, those things make me nuts, especially the words that get switched to stupid meanings!

My pleasure!

You are so welcome!

You’re so welcome!